National Advisory Board

Susan (Susie) Wilson, M.S. Ed, former executive coordinator for 23 years at the Network for Family Life Education at Rutgers University’s Center for Applied and Professional Psychology (now renamed Answer, sex ed honestly), is a national leader in the effort effective school-based sexuality education programs and for the prevention of unintended adolescent pregnancy.  Wilson wrote a blog, Sex Ed Honestly, for the Answer website. She additionally wrote a column/blog, Sex Matters, for the New Jersey Newsroom.

While she served on the NJ State Board of Education from 1978-82, Wilson was a leading proponent of a state wide requirement for sex education programs in the public schools.  The mandate still is in place today. (See, The Struggle for Sex Education in New Jersey, 1979-2003: Policy, Persistence and Progress, by Philip E. Mackey, PhD.)

While at the Network, Wilson published two highly successful national newsletters, Family Life Matters for educators and staff of community-based organizations.

sex, etc. written by and for teens.  At its high-water mark, this free teen publication reached 1.3 million teens a year through a network of 7,000 adults; it is now currently an online publication. In May 1997, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton honored sex, etc. at the White House for its work in involving teens in the fight against teen pregnancy.  

A former education reporter for Life magazine, Wilson has written numerous articles on family life and sex education and related subjects for the New York Times, SIECUS Report, The Family Life Educator and other publications.  She was married to Donald M. Wilson for 54 years; he died in 2011. They have three children and five grandchildren.  Susie is a graduate of the Class of 1951 at Vassar and received her MS. Ed. from Bank Street College of Education in New York City.